Specific Instructions for PI of Training (Parent) Grant: Completing the INSPIR Application

PI of the overall training grant submits an INSPIR application

1.Section 1 : Project title: Name the protocol after the training grant

2.Section 2:List the Dept. of the PI of the Grant

3.Section 3(Investigators) List in Section 3

  1. The PI of the Training Grant (Parent Grant) should be the PI of this protocol
  2. Not necessary to list all trainees on the parent grant at this time
  3. List administrator under “contacts” in order to receive INSPIR notices
  4. Section 3.5: Indicate Section Chief/Dept. Chair of PI to sign off on the protocol

4.Section 4- will be Blank. (there should not be any non-BUMC investigators for these grants)

5.Section 5 – will be Blank . Do NOT complete.

6.Section 6- COI- answer COI question for all investigators listed in Section 3

7.Section 7– Funding. This is very important. In order to be able to match the funding to future projects under this funding Section 7.2 must be completely filled out.

  1. **A copy of the full training grant must be attached to the INSPIR application. including Face page, abstract, research plan, specific aims, background and significance, preliminary studies, research design and methods, human subjects, appendices that relate to the conduct of research

8.Section 8 Study Summary: In this section

  1. Indicate that this is a Training grant
  2. Indicate here that this grant itself does not describe specific individual human subjects research
  3. Verify that any individual projects involving human subjects, their data or specimensconducted by trainees who are funded by this training grant will be submitted separately to the IRB via INSPIR protocol once they have been developed.
  4. Verify that all trainees listed on this training grant have been informed that no human subjects related activities (including but not limited to recruitment, enrollment, consenting, data collection, study interventions, data analysis) can begin until full IRB approval for the individual projects have been obtained. Conditional approval and deferral do NOT represent full IRB approval.

9.Section 9- Research sites: indicate single site (all trainees at BUMC)

10.Section 10 –Review Path Determination

  1. Questions 10.1 and 10.2 – answer NO
  2. Question 10.3 – answer Not Human Subjects Research (first option)
  3. Questions 10.4-10.12 –answer NO

11.Section 11- Description of Not Human Subjects Research. INSPIR forces an answer. OK to copy the same information as in the Study Summary.

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